Graeme Broadbent
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Graeme Broadbent studied Royal College of Music, London, and the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow, and boasts an impressive range of repertoire with more than one hundred and forty roles performed internationally.
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His long-held relationship with the Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden, has seen him perform over forty-three roles with the company, including Il Re Aida, Ratcliffe Billy Budd, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor, Timur Turandot, König Marke Tristan und Isolde, Pietro Simon Boccanegra, Horatio Hamlet, Leone Attila, Dr Grenvil La Traviata, One Armed Brother/Nightwatchman Die Frau ohne Schatten, Nightwatchman Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Voice of Neptune Idomeneo, Angelotti Tosca, Zuàne La Gioconda, Ariadenus Ormindo, Satyr & Pluto Orpheus, and Odin in the world premiere of Gavin Higgins' The Monstrous Child.
Broadbent has performed roles with many of the leading companies throughout the UK, including Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Commendatore Don Giovanni, Hans Folz Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Dr Grenvil La Traviata (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Don Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Doctor Punch & Judy (English National Opera); Le Roi de Bavière Fantasio (Garsington Opera); Gremin Eugene Onegin, Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro, Father Trulove The Rake’s Progress and Sergeant of Police The Pirates of Penzance (Scottish Opera); Nilakantha Lakmé, Sulpice La fille du Régiment, Raleigh Roberto Devereux, Sparafucile Rigoletto, Ramfis Aida, Commendatore Don Giovanni, and Gremin Eugene Onegin (Opera Holland Park); Hotel Manager/The Duke in Thomas Ades’ Powder Her Face (Aldeburgh festival); Il Visconte di Suze Maria di Rohan, Andrea Cornaro Caterina Cornaro, Fenicio Ermione, Il priore degli Spedalieri La straniera (Opera Rara); Sarvaor La vida breve, Don Estoban Der Zwerg, Mother Seven Deadly Sins, and also created the roles of The Ringmaster The Adventures of Pinocchio and Death Swanhunter (Opera North).
His international highlights include Pistola Falstaff (Baden-Baden Festspielhaus); Ratcliffe Billy Budd (The Bolshoi); Swallow Peter Grimes(Beijing Music Festival & Orchestra Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia); The Ringmaster The Adventures of Pinocchio (Staatsoper Stuttgart); Commendatore Don Giovanni, John Claggart Billy Budd and Padre Guardiano La forza del destino (Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova); John Claggart Billy Budd (Saint Petersburg); Theseus A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opéra Comique Paris; Opéra National de Lyon; Opéra National de Montpellier); Mother Seven Deadly Sins and Jimmy Mahagonny Songspiel (Theater an der Wien & Théâtre des Champs-Élysées); Sarastro Die Zauberflöte (New Zealand Opera); Rooster Wildthing & Emile Where the Wild Things Are (Los Angeles & Aldeburgh Festival), Silvano La Calisto (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées); Harasta/Badger The Cunning Little Vixen (Spoleto Festival); and subsequent roles at the The Metropolitan Opera, and Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
He has worked with leading conductors such as Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Simon Rattle, Dame Jane Glover, Christian Thielemann, Gustavo Dudamel, Emmanuelle Haïm, Edward Gardner, Christoph von Dohnànyi, Richard Bonynge, Maurizio Benini, Mark Minkowski, Carlo Rizzi, and Vladimir Jurowski.